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PM asks police members to perform duties with professionalism

PM asks police members to perform duties with professionalism

-- 2022-01-23 16:47:12

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the police personnel to perform their duties with professionalism to protect the country's hard-earned independence along with maintaining the law and order situ...

Qawmi madrasas should come under regulation, Dipu Moni says

Qawmi madrasas should come under regulation, Dipu Moni says

-- 2022-01-23 16:31:24

Education Minister Dipu Moni has said the country’s religious educational institutions, including Qawmi madrasas, should come under the registration process of the government. “Qawmi madr...

Kamal pledges action against harassing businessmen by taxmen

Kamal pledges action against harassing businessmen by taxmen

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-23 15:18:58

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal said on Sunday his office will look into the allegation of harassing businessmen by taxmen once he get a written submission on it. “When we are informed about...

Rain likely to occur in parts of country

Rain likely to occur in parts of country

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-23 14:43:16

Rain or thundershowers, accompanied by a temporary gusty wind, is likely to occur in most parts of the country on Sunday, according to a met office bulletin issued on Sunday morning. The weather fore...

Shahjalal University protesters speak with education minister, refuse to budge

Shahjalal University protesters speak with education minister, refuse to budge

-- 2022-01-23 12:18:08

Education Minister Dipu Moni has urged protesting students at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology to end their hunger strike via video conference, bdnews24.com reports. The protesters,...

Siblings script success story in mushroom farming

Siblings script success story in mushroom farming

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-23 09:07:01

NETROKONA: There are only a few people, who can turn their pastimes into paychecks. Minhaj Uddin Ahmed and his younger brother Miraj Uddin Ahmed from Amtala, a small village in Netrokona's Kendua, ar...

Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani's 5th death anniversary today

Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani's 5th death anniversary today

FE REPORT 2022-01-23 08:56:47

Today (Sunday) is the fifth death anniversary of Mirza Ali Behrouze Ispahani, former chairman of Ispahani Group. He breathed his last at a hospital in the capital city on January 23, 2017 following a...

More functional local government bodies suggested

More functional local government bodies suggested

FE REPORT 2022-01-23 08:46:46

Terming the recently-concluded Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) election peaceful, experts on Saturday laid emphasis on devolution of power to the local government bodies in order to make those more...

Citizens’ probe body finds negligence of govt officials, owners behind MV Abhijan-10 fire

Citizens’ probe body finds negligence of govt officials, owners behind MV Abhijan-10 fire

-- 2022-01-22 20:15:07

A 16-member Citizens' Investigation Committee has found the negligence of four government officials, four launch owners and four others in the Jhalakathi MV Abhijan-10 fire incident that claimed the l...

DiCaprio greets Bangladesh for marine protected area around Saint Martin

DiCaprio greets Bangladesh for marine protected area around Saint Martin

-- 2022-01-22 20:12:34

Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio has congratulated the government of Bangladesh for establishing a Marine Protected Area around Saint Martin's Island, an island in the northeastern part of the Bay of...

Seven police officers become additional inspectors general

Seven police officers become additional inspectors general

-- 2022-01-22 19:55:26

The government has promoted Monirul Islam, the deputy inspector general of the Special Branch, to an additional inspector general of the police. Monirul Islam was among the seven officers elevated by...

‘Room for cooperation on Teesta River water sharing still opens’,

‘Room for cooperation on Teesta River water sharing still opens’,

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-22 19:02:53

There is still room for cooperation on Teesta River water sharing and it cannot be a zero sum or a one-sided game, speakers said at a conference on Teesta River on Saturday. The solution should be ba...

Judicial proceedings to continue virtually, physically amid pandemic

Judicial proceedings to continue virtually, physically amid pandemic

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-22 18:51:09

Judicial proceedings of the country's lower court will be conducted both virtually and physically amid the surging Covid-19 transmission. To this effect, a notification was issued on Saturday in this...

‘Law on EC formation after dialogue just another joke’

‘Law on EC formation after dialogue just another joke’

-- 2022-01-22 18:32:19

BNP senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Saturday described the government's move to enact a law on the formation of the Election Commission (EC) after the President's dialogue with political...

Omicron surges after Dec 25, genome sequencing report shows

Omicron surges after Dec 25, genome sequencing report shows

TANJIM HASAN PATWARY 2022-01-22 18:02:22

Almost three-fourths of the Covid-19 patients, who came to hospitals in Chattogram after December 25, were infected with Omicron variant, according to results of genome sequencing. Done at Chittagong...

Coronavirus: 9,614 cases, 17 deaths reported in 24 hours

Coronavirus: 9,614 cases, 17 deaths reported in 24 hours

-- 2022-01-22 17:44:35

Bangladesh has reported 9,614 new coronavirus cases in a day, taking the total caseload to 1,674,230. The death toll rose to 28,209 as 17 more patients died from Covid-19 in the 24 hours to 8:00 am o...

15 SUST students hospitalised on fourth day of hunger strike

15 SUST students hospitalised on fourth day of hunger strike

-- 2022-01-22 16:35:40

Fifteen of the 24 Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) students, who went on hunger strike to demand the resignation of Vice-Chancellor Farid Uddin Ahmed and the withdrawal of police...

EC formation law to be placed in parliament Sunday

EC formation law to be placed in parliament Sunday

-- 2022-01-22 16:22:22

The draft of a new law on the formation of the Election Commission, which includes a provision regarding a search panel for appointments, is set to be presented before the parliament during its first...

10 arrested in Dhaka over govt job question paper leak

10 arrested in Dhaka over govt job question paper leak

-- 2022-01-22 16:13:59

Ten people, including an upazila vice chairman and a sacked government official, have been arrested by the Gulshan Division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police for supplying question papers and answer sheets...

Rain likely in parts of Bangladesh, including Dhaka: Met Office

Rain likely in parts of Bangladesh, including Dhaka: Met Office

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-01-22 15:28:11

Bangladesh Meteorological Department has forecast light rain/drizzle in Dhaka, Khulna and Barishal divisions. “Light rain/drizzle is likely to occur at one or two places over Khulna, Barishal a...

‘Shikho’ acquires coding platform ‘Mainly Coding’

‘Shikho’ acquires coding platform ‘Mainly Coding’

FE REPORT 2022-01-22 13:16:30

Shikho, a Bangladeshi education technology startup, has acquired ‘Mainly Coding’, a platform that focuses on the practical aspects of learning how to code. The all cash deal marks Shikho&...

Patenga Container Terminal to start operation this year

Patenga Container Terminal to start operation this year

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL 2022-01-22 09:27:07

CHATTOGRAM: Construction work of Patenga Container Terminal (PCT) of the Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is going on smoothly with the target to start its operation in the current year. Around 84 per...

80,000 female Bangladeshi expatriates hired in 2021

80,000 female Bangladeshi expatriates hired in 2021

ARAFAT ARA 2022-01-22 09:16:56

More than 80,000 Bangladeshi women workers found overseas jobs in the past one year, contributing to the job sector and remittance income back home. Statistics available with the manpower bureau show...

BTRC set to auction 5G spectrum in March

BTRC set to auction 5G spectrum in March

ISMAIL HOOSAIN 2022-01-22 09:14:35

The country's mobile operators are required to provide fifth generation (5G) services to at least 50 per cent of the country's total population within five years from the date of issuance of the licen...

Visitors, workers must show vaccination certificates to enter Book Fair

Visitors, workers must show vaccination certificates to enter Book Fair

-- 2022-01-21 21:22:46

After deferring the Amar Ekushey Book Fair by two weeks, the authorities have now made it mandatory for everyone to show coronavirus vaccination certificates to enter the venue. Bangla Academy Direct...

We have evidence on BNP’s lobbying against country, Hasan Mahmud says

We have evidence on BNP’s lobbying against country, Hasan Mahmud says

-- 2022-01-21 21:05:35

Information and Broadcasting Minister Hasan Mahmud on Friday said the government has specific evidence of BNP appointing lobbyist farms abroad against the country. BNP made the agreement to appoint l...

People will not accept gas price hikes in any way, Mosharraf says

People will not accept gas price hikes in any way, Mosharraf says

-- 2022-01-21 21:00:20

BNP’s senior leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain on Friday strongly opposed the government’s move to hike gas tariffs and warned that people will not accept it in any way. “There's a...

‘Govt had to shut schools, colleges as Covid spread to children’

‘Govt had to shut schools, colleges as Covid spread to children’

-- 2022-01-21 20:58:01

Education Minister Dipu Moni says they had no alternative to closing schools and colleges after the surging Covid-19 infections spread among children. While attending a meeting on the new board textb...

Bangladesh edges closer to vaccination target

Bangladesh edges closer to vaccination target

-- 2022-01-21 20:27:08

The government is edging closer to its vaccination target, having administered at least one dose to over 92.42 million citizens through the nationwide campaign until Thursday. It makes up 77.53 per c...

It’s US that trained RAB, says FM Momen

It’s US that trained RAB, says FM Momen

-- 2022-01-21 19:06:33

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said that it is the United States that trained RAB on their rules of engagement how to behave with people and how to interrogate. “They’ve been trai...